Apps

• iTerm2 - better terminal + OhMyZsh + Powerlevel10k theme, recently I switched to Warp but memory usage is significant

• Alfred (Raycast seems like a great alternative)

• Proxyman (new version of Charlesproxy)

• Postman and/or Insomnia

• ForkLift (for sFTP access mostly)

• AlDente - battery hard capping at 80% charge

• Magnet - window management, great for ultra-widescreens

• Calibre - ebook management

• Brave - browser

• Firefox - it handles much better huge JSON responses than anything else

• CheatSheet - hold CMD key to see app shortcuts

• GitKraken - GUI for GIT, used to be minimalistic and super fast

• Microsoft Office apps 🤷‍♂️

• Spotify

• Private Internet Access - VPN

• Visual Studio Code, with plugins:

  • Swagger Viewer - Swagger preview inside VSC

  • Prettier

  • PlantUML - for UML diagrams

  • GitLens

  • Docker - for correct autocomplete and syntax verification

• Network Radar - easy peeking at what is in a local network

• Steam

• Ultimaker Cura - 3D printing (slicer)

• Xnapper - screenshots

• Xcodes - multiple XCode versions via GUI

• Stream Deck and Logitech G Hub

• Numi - simple calculator+notepad

• Docker or Podman, or lately Podman Desktop

• Flutter SDK

• Raindrop.io - bookmark manager

• Notion - notes

• Radar - monitor anything in MacOS Menu

• DevCleaner - removing unused XCode stuff

Communication

• Slack

• MS Teams 🤷‍♂️

• Discord (Beta as it works better on M1 Macs)

• Telegram

• Signal

• Zoom

JetBrains IDE's

• IntelliJ

• Android Studio

• Fleet

Brew packages

• tree

• trash

• rbenv

• fastlane

• apktool

• bundletool

• scrcpy

• maestro

• gradle-profiler

Ruby gems

• bundler

Browser extensions

• Bitwarden

• Pocket

• Grammarly

• JSON Formatter

• Google Translate

• Reddit Enhancement Suite

• Hacker News Enhancement Suite

• Tempermonkey

• Raindrop.io

Other

• move MacOS dock to the right side

• make MacOS dock auto-hide, use a dark theme

• Install Monokai theme for IntelliJ , VSC, GitKraken

• Font Family: Install Fira Code font and enable ligatures in IDEs. However lately I'm considering fonts almost monospaced as a perfect middle ground. I also had a good time with JetBrains Mono. Going back and forth on this.

• Make sure the browser, slack, teams... have properly selected audio input/output as well the external camera is working.

• Give permission to everything (ex. Slack and Teams to share screen)

• Configure Ruby using rbenv

• Make sure everything (TBC) is added to PATH:

• Setup Git with keypair and upload them to Gitlab&Github...

• Consider using a separate git profile for work depending on a directory

• Open XCode and Android Studio, download all required SDK and simulators/emulators images

• Install plugins to IntelliJ IDEs (KMM, JSON to Kotlin class, GraphQL, Flutter, Dart, Compose Multiplatform, Build Variant Matrix, Android Baseline profiles)

• Import Alfred/Raycast workflows, install Raindrop integration

• Git clone your repos ❤️ and build those projects (so next time you have an incremental build and not a clean one), also check if you have all the needed certificates/keys for them

• Add to Preview app your signature

• Add a custom shortcut to Finder to open any folder in Visual Studio Code

Do not forget to migrate hundreds of open tabs from your old system.